Max Chernoff via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> writes:

> Hi Leah,
>
>> I was typesetting some German text on a narrow page when I discovered
>> the justification wasn't as good as expected.  I think I tracked this
>> down to differences in hyphenation points, namely, ConTeXt has fewer:
>> 
>> \starttext
>> \language[de]
>> \showhyphens{Zusammenhang}
>> \showhyphens{anderswo}
>> \showhyphens{anderswoher}
>> \stoptext
>> 
>> This shows
>> languages       > hyphenation > show: Zusam[-||]men[-||]hang
>> languages       > hyphenation > show: anderswo
>> languages       > hyphenation > show: anders[-||]wo[-||]her
>
> Babel/ngerman sets left/righthyphenmin to 2/2, but ConTeXt sets those to
> 3/3 for German. (The English default is 2/3). I don't speak German so I
> have no idea which is correct, but you can get the same behaviour in
> ConTeXt with:

Perfect, thanks!

Many prefixes have two letters, so changing the default may be
reasonable.  But there are more experienced German typographers on
this list who can chime in.

-- 
Leah Neukirchen  <l...@vuxu.org>  https://leahneukirchen.org
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